John Forbes: You were voted the prettiest girl in the class; I was voted the boy most likely to succeed. Something should happen t...o people like that.Sue Forbes: Well, something did. They got married.John Forbes: Whatever happened to those two people who were going to build a boat and sail around the world?Sue Forbes: Well, I had a baby. I never did hear what happened to you. Oh, come on, wanderlust, you've got a family to support.John Forbes: No South America?Sue Forbes: Not today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Sue Forbes: Old man routine getting you down?John Forbes: Oh, I don't know. Sometimes I get to feel like a wheel within a wh...eel within a wheel.Sue Forbes: You and fifty million others.John Forbes: I don't want to be like fifty million others.Sue Forbes: Oh, but you're John Forbes, average American, backbone of the country.John Forbes: I don't want to be an average American, backbone of the country. I want somebody else to be the backbone and hold me up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Word of gloom from the war, one day;Johnston pressed at the front, they say....Little Giffen was up and away;A tear--his first--as he bade good-by,Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye."I'll write, if spared!" There was news of the fight;But none of Giffen.--He did not write.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Those who have handled sciences have either been men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they ...only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »